Using that reasoning, then why did Linux Mint even release a KDE version instead of just working with Kubuntu?
Probably for the same reason they made Linux Mint in the first place, instead of just working with Canonical. Or, because they already had LM in place, and adding KDE under the LM umbrella made more sense than contributing to a red-headed stepchild that Canonical hated.
They have different goals.
Which are what? I'm running both, on two different computers, and there's little difference between the two except the theming.
I can see how Netrunner is different, they have a different menu and appear to be aiming for a particular kind of user, rather than making a vanilla KDE distro. However, LMDKE and Kubuntu are both very vanilla KDE distros. And Netrunner even says it's based on Kubuntu.
Sure they can, with a giant military to destroy anyone who resists. That's how empires work.
Of course, this isn't likely to happen any time soon, since there's too many competing factions at the moment which are too powerful for any one faction to take over everything. But factionalism doesn't have to be a problem with regional governments; just look at China: you think they have any problems with factions trying to break away? Of course not, they just send in the PLA and crush them.
But yes, in a hypothetical future where we don't have empires trying to take over everything and crush dissenters, and things are mostly based on democracy and voluntary cooperation, I don't see how a planetary government is remotely possible. The Europeans can't even manage to cooperate with each other enough to maintain a loose union with a shared currency, and they have far fewer differences amongst themselves than they do with far away countries like China or countries in the middle east or Africa.
This all makes me wonder: why do the workplaces then keep locating in areas where the housing is so expensive? Doesn't that also equate to commercial space being horrendously expensive? Why don't they move their offices 45 minutes away, and save a bundle on commercial leasing? Then their employees can live there too and not have to commute as far.
I don't think that's fair. Ubuntu isn't a trainwreck, only the Unity component is. The rest of Ubuntu has long been a very good distro (largely because of Debian, which it's based on). It's Unity that's crap. Gnome3, of course, is also crap, but with this GNOMEbuntu, you're just trading one POS for another POS, so it's still only one trainwreck in the package, not two.
However, from what I'm reading, it seems that Gnome3 is a bigger POS than Unity, so this is still a downgrade it appears.
I really don't understand why the Kubuntu people even bother. If they're not getting any more help from Canonical, why even bother keeping the distro going at all? They should just throw in the towel, and join the Linux Mint KDE team. Linux Mint is little more than Ubuntu with some modifications, and LM even has their own KDE version which is featured prominently, unlike Kubuntu which has always been treated like a red-haired stepchild. They should join forces, move to the Linux Mint camp, and make all their contributions there. I'm sure the LM team would be happy to have the extra help. Why bother maintaining two separate distros which are almost identical?
It's slightly annoying, but I thought the point of the word "enterprise", at least in IT circles, was to differentiate a very large business from a smaller business. "Enterprise"-level businesses have IT needs that are very different than what Ma&Pa's Retail Store needs. Now, why they can't just say "large business", and need a fancy word for it, I don't know.
That's kinda my point. The Roman Republic simply isn't the same as the Roman Empire; sure, they call themselves "Romans", and they may have been mostly the same people before and after that point, but it's not the same society. Same as Weimar Republic Germany and post-WWII Germany; mostly the same people (except the ones who fled or were killed in the fighting or were exterminated of course), but definitely not the same society. That's not what I call "reinventing yourself", that's what I call "bloody revolution", "a horrible war", etc. Why would you want to live through one of those highly violent periods, if you have a choice? Better to get out and observe from the sidelines. When the people of the Weimar Republic saw things going south in a bad way, the smart ones got the heck out. It was probably 20 years before things were good again (after their country was conquered and devastated, and then had to rebuild itself from the most massive bombing campaign in history); who wants to hang around for 2 decades of war and misery?
I just can't think of any societies that managed to "reinvent" themselves for the better without having a violent period, either a revolution or civil war, or getting conquered by someone else who got sick of their warlike ways.
One problem with moving is that it's easier said than done. Many countries are pretty hard to emigrate to; they usually require you to have a job offer in-hand, or a shitload of money in the bank. In Canada, last time I checked, you needed a job in certain industries (software was a pretty big one though, along with other tech industries), or $300k to deposit in a Canadian bank. But for people on this site, it's probably a whole lot easier to emigrate than for the general population.
Of course, this is all speculation, but I agree the US is crashing. What's your opinion on the timeframe?
WTF are you talking about? You're babbling and not making much sense.
Texans don't think there's a problem with them being a non-swing state. They like it that way. That's why they keep voting Republican, because the vast majority of Texans agree with GOP principles and the GOP platform. Texans aren't going to stop voting Republican; why would you even say such a thing? No matter what you do, Texans are going to continue voting Republican, happily. So if you live in Texas and don't like the Republican candidate, you might as well vote for whomever you like the best. It's not going to make a difference to their electoral votes, because the vast majority of Texan voters are going to vote for Romney regardless. There's nothing you can do to change that. Voting for Obama is a wasted vote (unless you really love Obama that much), because there is absolutely no way Obama will win Texas. However, a vote for a 3rd party candidate, while it also will not change the outcome for the 2012 election, could help that 3rd Party get over 15% nationwide, and then be eligible to take part in the debates in 2016.
Understand yet? Or is this still over your head? You remind me of religious fundamentalists who vigorously deny reality when it conflicts with their fantasy or their view of how things should be.
People probably started looking for the best deals on them because their data storage needs were growing; hard drive capacities were increasing by leaps and bounds, yet floppy drive capacities remained fixed at 1.44MB for ages. They tried some new formats like 2.88MB, flopticals, Zip disks, etc., but none of them really caught on because they weren't standards; you couldn't expect any computer you used (at work, your friend's computer, etc.) to have a drive capable of reading them. Plus the per-MB price of those alternatives was always even higher than the 1.44MB disks. It wasn't until much later when CD-R prices got cheap enough to finally displace the floppies, and people started using those for their data storage and transport.
I hope you're not being incredulous, because this is all very well-established. Non-swing states have voting records that are very well historically established, for one party or the other. The chances that they'll have a close election are very, very slim (i.e., the chances that Texas will be anything but overwhelmingly in the Republicans' favor is pretty remote, the same with Illinois and the Democrats). So if you're going to vote for the opposite party (or 3rd party), it's not going to make a difference in all likelihood.
Except that Turkey keeps trying to get accepted into the EU, whereas Russia does not.
Geographically, they're both technically part of Europe, in part (a small part of Turkey is on the same landmass as and borders Greece, and everything east of the Urals in Russia is considered part of Europe, not to mention that funky exclave just north of Poland on the Baltic Sea).
What you're proposing is absurd. Teach boys how to take care of themselves? That would be like teaching aspiring American drivers how to drive properly, and testing that they are competent, before unleashing them on the public roadways, rather than simply making sure they can take a few right turns and park without wrecking. This is America: education is never the answer.
There's millions of men in Europe that are uncircumcised, and they seem to do just fine that way. It's telling that the people doing this "study" had to go to some backwards part of Africa, a place not exactly known for good public sanitation and hygiene, to get results to their liking.
What's the deal with hair and cysts? I hadn't heard of that before.
However, I'd be happy to get much of my hair removed; it really doesn't serve much of a purpose, and the stuff on my face is just a PITA and serves zero purpose (if it did, women would have beards too). Except, like many men, I'd like to have more hair on top of my head....:-( What a raw deal: I get hair I don't need where I don't really want it, and I'm losing hair in the one place where I actually like having it.
Meh. I know a girl missing her 4th toe on one foot that says the same thing.
That's rather odd. Most girls are pretty self-conscious about their feet and how they look; after all, it's pretty common for women to walk around in sandals in warmer weather, and missing or misshapen toes do not look good in sandals. Men generally don't care that much about their feet since they usually wear shoes, or think of minor disfigurements and scars as "battle wounds".
The Smoky Mountains National Park is actually a very nice place. I also hear Chattanooga is a cool city with good tech (for its size). Memphis has an undeniable musical legacy, though these days it's probably not a great place to be. The weather's pretty decent; doesn't get too cold or too hot. It's not a perfect state, but it has its plusses. And, it's better than Mississippi.
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Using that reasoning, then why did Linux Mint even release a KDE version instead of just working with Kubuntu?
Probably for the same reason they made Linux Mint in the first place, instead of just working with Canonical. Or, because they already had LM in place, and adding KDE under the LM umbrella made more sense than contributing to a red-headed stepchild that Canonical hated.
They have different goals.
Which are what? I'm running both, on two different computers, and there's little difference between the two except the theming.
I can see how Netrunner is different, they have a different menu and appear to be aiming for a particular kind of user, rather than making a vanilla KDE distro. However, LMDKE and Kubuntu are both very vanilla KDE distros. And Netrunner even says it's based on Kubuntu.
Sure they can, with a giant military to destroy anyone who resists. That's how empires work.
Of course, this isn't likely to happen any time soon, since there's too many competing factions at the moment which are too powerful for any one faction to take over everything. But factionalism doesn't have to be a problem with regional governments; just look at China: you think they have any problems with factions trying to break away? Of course not, they just send in the PLA and crush them.
But yes, in a hypothetical future where we don't have empires trying to take over everything and crush dissenters, and things are mostly based on democracy and voluntary cooperation, I don't see how a planetary government is remotely possible. The Europeans can't even manage to cooperate with each other enough to maintain a loose union with a shared currency, and they have far fewer differences amongst themselves than they do with far away countries like China or countries in the middle east or Africa.
This all makes me wonder: why do the workplaces then keep locating in areas where the housing is so expensive? Doesn't that also equate to commercial space being horrendously expensive? Why don't they move their offices 45 minutes away, and save a bundle on commercial leasing? Then their employees can live there too and not have to commute as far.
Not if they form a single planetary government, they won't.
I don't think that's fair. Ubuntu isn't a trainwreck, only the Unity component is. The rest of Ubuntu has long been a very good distro (largely because of Debian, which it's based on). It's Unity that's crap. Gnome3, of course, is also crap, but with this GNOMEbuntu, you're just trading one POS for another POS, so it's still only one trainwreck in the package, not two.
However, from what I'm reading, it seems that Gnome3 is a bigger POS than Unity, so this is still a downgrade it appears.
I really don't understand why the Kubuntu people even bother. If they're not getting any more help from Canonical, why even bother keeping the distro going at all? They should just throw in the towel, and join the Linux Mint KDE team. Linux Mint is little more than Ubuntu with some modifications, and LM even has their own KDE version which is featured prominently, unlike Kubuntu which has always been treated like a red-haired stepchild. They should join forces, move to the Linux Mint camp, and make all their contributions there. I'm sure the LM team would be happy to have the extra help. Why bother maintaining two separate distros which are almost identical?
It's slightly annoying, but I thought the point of the word "enterprise", at least in IT circles, was to differentiate a very large business from a smaller business. "Enterprise"-level businesses have IT needs that are very different than what Ma&Pa's Retail Store needs. Now, why they can't just say "large business", and need a fancy word for it, I don't know.
I don't know what your problem is. If you think the state of Texas is going to elect Obama, you're an idiot. I'm done with you.
That's kinda my point. The Roman Republic simply isn't the same as the Roman Empire; sure, they call themselves "Romans", and they may have been mostly the same people before and after that point, but it's not the same society. Same as Weimar Republic Germany and post-WWII Germany; mostly the same people (except the ones who fled or were killed in the fighting or were exterminated of course), but definitely not the same society. That's not what I call "reinventing yourself", that's what I call "bloody revolution", "a horrible war", etc. Why would you want to live through one of those highly violent periods, if you have a choice? Better to get out and observe from the sidelines. When the people of the Weimar Republic saw things going south in a bad way, the smart ones got the heck out. It was probably 20 years before things were good again (after their country was conquered and devastated, and then had to rebuild itself from the most massive bombing campaign in history); who wants to hang around for 2 decades of war and misery?
I just can't think of any societies that managed to "reinvent" themselves for the better without having a violent period, either a revolution or civil war, or getting conquered by someone else who got sick of their warlike ways.
Where'd you move to?
One problem with moving is that it's easier said than done. Many countries are pretty hard to emigrate to; they usually require you to have a job offer in-hand, or a shitload of money in the bank. In Canada, last time I checked, you needed a job in certain industries (software was a pretty big one though, along with other tech industries), or $300k to deposit in a Canadian bank. But for people on this site, it's probably a whole lot easier to emigrate than for the general population.
Of course, this is all speculation, but I agree the US is crashing. What's your opinion on the timeframe?
Ah crap, that second sentence should read, "Just like you shouldn't be able to earn a degree..."
WTF are you talking about? You're babbling and not making much sense.
Texans don't think there's a problem with them being a non-swing state. They like it that way. That's why they keep voting Republican, because the vast majority of Texans agree with GOP principles and the GOP platform. Texans aren't going to stop voting Republican; why would you even say such a thing? No matter what you do, Texans are going to continue voting Republican, happily. So if you live in Texas and don't like the Republican candidate, you might as well vote for whomever you like the best. It's not going to make a difference to their electoral votes, because the vast majority of Texan voters are going to vote for Romney regardless. There's nothing you can do to change that. Voting for Obama is a wasted vote (unless you really love Obama that much), because there is absolutely no way Obama will win Texas. However, a vote for a 3rd party candidate, while it also will not change the outcome for the 2012 election, could help that 3rd Party get over 15% nationwide, and then be eligible to take part in the debates in 2016.
Understand yet? Or is this still over your head? You remind me of religious fundamentalists who vigorously deny reality when it conflicts with their fantasy or their view of how things should be.
Yes, I'm sure some dimwit like you said the same thing to people like Christopher Columbus and the other new world explorers.
I see the apostrophe-plural-s frequently outside the internet too, such as on store signs and other promotional material.
People probably started looking for the best deals on them because their data storage needs were growing; hard drive capacities were increasing by leaps and bounds, yet floppy drive capacities remained fixed at 1.44MB for ages. They tried some new formats like 2.88MB, flopticals, Zip disks, etc., but none of them really caught on because they weren't standards; you couldn't expect any computer you used (at work, your friend's computer, etc.) to have a drive capable of reading them. Plus the per-MB price of those alternatives was always even higher than the 1.44MB disks. It wasn't until much later when CD-R prices got cheap enough to finally displace the floppies, and people started using those for their data storage and transport.
I hope you're not being incredulous, because this is all very well-established. Non-swing states have voting records that are very well historically established, for one party or the other. The chances that they'll have a close election are very, very slim (i.e., the chances that Texas will be anything but overwhelmingly in the Republicans' favor is pretty remote, the same with Illinois and the Democrats). So if you're going to vote for the opposite party (or 3rd party), it's not going to make a difference in all likelihood.
Except that Turkey keeps trying to get accepted into the EU, whereas Russia does not.
Geographically, they're both technically part of Europe, in part (a small part of Turkey is on the same landmass as and borders Greece, and everything east of the Urals in Russia is considered part of Europe, not to mention that funky exclave just north of Poland on the Baltic Sea).
What you're proposing is absurd. Teach boys how to take care of themselves? That would be like teaching aspiring American drivers how to drive properly, and testing that they are competent, before unleashing them on the public roadways, rather than simply making sure they can take a few right turns and park without wrecking. This is America: education is never the answer.
(He he, I like to mock my fellow Americans. :) )
Join the club.
There's millions of men in Europe that are uncircumcised, and they seem to do just fine that way. It's telling that the people doing this "study" had to go to some backwards part of Africa, a place not exactly known for good public sanitation and hygiene, to get results to their liking.
What's the deal with hair and cysts? I hadn't heard of that before.
However, I'd be happy to get much of my hair removed; it really doesn't serve much of a purpose, and the stuff on my face is just a PITA and serves zero purpose (if it did, women would have beards too). Except, like many men, I'd like to have more hair on top of my head.... :-( What a raw deal: I get hair I don't need where I don't really want it, and I'm losing hair in the one place where I actually like having it.
Meh. I know a girl missing her 4th toe on one foot that says the same thing.
That's rather odd. Most girls are pretty self-conscious about their feet and how they look; after all, it's pretty common for women to walk around in sandals in warmer weather, and missing or misshapen toes do not look good in sandals. Men generally don't care that much about their feet since they usually wear shoes, or think of minor disfigurements and scars as "battle wounds".
Yep, I went to high school in east Tennessee. We had a big sinkhole open up right in the football field! Hahaha. Too bad they filled it in.
The Smoky Mountains National Park is actually a very nice place. I also hear Chattanooga is a cool city with good tech (for its size). Memphis has an undeniable musical legacy, though these days it's probably not a great place to be. The weather's pretty decent; doesn't get too cold or too hot. It's not a perfect state, but it has its plusses. And, it's better than Mississippi.
No, but most other people on this site are Americans, and it's not much better (and sometimes worse) in most other states in the country.